Tonic remedy



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

CHARLES SCHMIDT AND ALINE R. LEDET, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.

TONIC REM EDY.

SDEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,716, dated October 20, 1891.

Application filed May 5, 1891 Serial No. 391,664. (No specimens.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES SCHMIDT and ALINE R. LEDET, of Birmingham, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, have invented a new and Improved Medical Compound, of which the following is a specification.

Our medical compound is a tonic particularly adapted for use in dyspepsia or in case of debility of the stomach and loss of appetite. It is composed of cinchona-bark, (red,) ten ounces; wild cherry bark, seven and one-half ounces; mammee (sapota) nut (or fruit) shells, ten ounces; rhubarb, (root,) five ounces; Sassafras, (bark of root,) five ounces; nutmeg, five ounces; oxide of iron, (iron rust,) seven and one-half ounces; rosemary, (leaves,) seven and one-half ounces; sherry-wine, one gallon.

The mode of preparation is as follows: The above ingredients having been suitably ground or crushed to reduce them to a coarse powder, all but the last two (oxide of iron and rosemary) are placed in a covered earthen vessel and steeped for one hour. The oxide 25 of iron, rosemary,.and wine are then added and the vessel tightly closed for eight days. (Of course the compound may be placed in bottles, if preferred.) The liquid is then decanted or strained and bottled for use.

The dose is one table-spoonful three times a day before meals.

The compound is highly advantageous as an appetizer and general tonic; also for regulating the action of the bowels.

That we claim is- The improved medical compound foruse as a tonic, the same consisting of cinchonabark,wild-cherrybark, mammee-nut (Zfifruit) shells, rhubarb, sassafras, nutmeg, oxide of 4-0 iron, rosemary, and Wine in about the proportions specified.

CHARLES SCHMIDT. ALINE R. LEDET.

WVitnesses: M

G-E RGE E. STEIN, O. F. PETERSEN. 

